Local, Global

One fantastic thing with the World Wide Web is to meet people around the world. Not just people, you could also listen to songs by artists you never heard from.

Many places out there will provide great tunes by bands, single artists or indie labels. In love with the music industry you could buy songs online, put them on your iPod or iPhone and enjoy your favorite tracks everywhere.

On you local PC you could collect hundrets of songs for your listening pleasure. But I'm sure, while sitting in the office you missed to put one track on your MP3 player you want to hear right now.

A new tool should close this hole. JukeFly is a software based tool which brings your local music files to the web - for your listening pleasure at any place.

The idea is simple. After installing a "Server" on your PC and configuring your internet access router, the tool connects to the JukeFly environment and tells them which songs you got on your disk. Now you simply need to create your playlists and listen to your songs.

The most important thing: JukeFly don't uploads any track to their environment. They stream your songs directly from your PC.

As well as this possiblity sounds good, you always should know that local software installations, which opens the door to the internet also provides a high security risk. Hackers may find bugs in the tool and use them to take your PC (and with it the stored data) under control.

But anyway. This idea sounds cool and maybe the JukeFly development team will find a solution soon without this high security impact.

Better Video Quality

I spend lot of time in trying different things to create music videos in an easy way. One part was the animation of computer genereated characters and environments. Very interesting, makes fun - but take a lot of time.

I got a few ideas in my head how to present music in an visual way. One of them is to take real situations out of the daily life, put them together and try to get them fitting to a music video.

But as ever in the life, if there's something amazing you can see, you don't have the possiblity to put it in your bag. Even with the digital possiblities with handy-cam etc. the quality is more bad than usable.

But now a new tool seems to break this rule. FixMyMovie is an online tool which try to help to improve the quality from videos you did with your mobile phone.

Some examples on their website looks very interesting. I had no chance to test it yet but I'll do that in a few days. I'm invited to a birthday party on Friday and will see what I can snap :)

May you got some videos up there and posted on YouTube? Let us know!

Convert, Convert, Convert

There are things out in the World Wide Web which you never seen before.

One of them is YouConvertIt.com.

This online tool allows you to convert a file in many (and many more) file formats. Textfile to PDF, Word Document and HTML - Audio and Video files to different formats and many many more.

With simply uploading a file you'll get any resulst you expected.

If there's any tool to try, this is a must!